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FILARIA

7 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 4 vowels

What FILARIA Means

  1. noun: European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage
  2. noun: slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FILARIA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 I1 L1 A1 R1 I1 A1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FILARIA

50 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

5 letter words (5)

4 letter words (21)

3 letter words (16)

2 letter words (8)

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